Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-03-16
Northern Pacific Directors
to Consider the Port
land Extension.
More Gossip About the
Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Deal.
The Pacific Coast Represented
In the National Educa-
ton Convention
Rsunlos Of the Army u the Cumbsr-
bsYland-Pieurs Pneumonia Dis
eusssd-wrsek OF the MAS
saehusetts cosst-In-
eenaiaries' work.
VIII Consider the Portland Exien-
afMm

Will Consider the PeFtIaad Exien-
alsH.
HKw YoKz, March lb.-At q meeting
Of the Northern Pacific Directors 10 be
held on merit Thursday, q proposition
will be submitted to them 10 build q
line Of railroad from AinsWorth 10 Port
land, q distance Of 2i4 miles, parailelinR
the Oregon Railway q Navigation road,
and thereby giving The Northern Pacific
Railroad too western teFminals ct
Portland for the Oregon trade, and the
other at Taoona for through b1sinses.
The Northern Pacihs hss tbs right 20
build line through the Columbia River
Valley and Il has = land Rr2nt Of Is 90
aorea per mile In Warrington Territory
and 1000 acres per mile 10 Oregon.
Tkis land grant inoIudes over 10000
anres. Il 10 stated that a syndicate OF
Chicago capitalists have offered TO grade
the road. build the masonry and bridges,
and lay the ties for the land grant. A
motion will be made At the Directors
meeting that COMMITTEES be appointed
60 confer with the Chicago people. IL
this line IL oonstFustsd II viii not inter-
fsre with the Cascade division through
70 Tacoma. The Directors will pFoba-
bly, also authorize the construction Of
four small roads In Idaho and Montana,
running TO the mining districts.
The Deal said 10 be Complete.
HKw YonK, March i5.-It IL generally
believed on Wall street that the con
troll OF the Baltimore q Ohio has passed
into the hAuds Of a syndicate. The
story IL current and is repeated by par
ties who are generally accepted ~ good
authority. that Jay Gould has acquired
q quarter interest In the syndicate and
has paid $4,000 In cash on the agree
msnts. Russell Sage is also named as
member Of tbs syndicate. According
70 the reports, the Western Union takes
the Baltimore 4 Ohio telegraph line,
and Dunsmore takes the express bust
ness for the Adams Express Company,
and the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany takes the road. The details are
said ts have been arranged last night.
NOTHING GOULD BK LEAaSKD.
NEW YoHK, March l5.-Nothing could
be learned tonight Of the Sully- Sage
conference TO-DAY, bot il Ia generally be
lieved that the floating rumofs ara cor
rect and that tbe hrst payment fer the
control Of the Baltimore n Ohio stock
has been subscribed. sully vas re-
peatsdly Questioned In regard TO the
meeting, bat refused 10 give anT inform
alton and would not even admit that be
bad been present at the conference
The reports affected the Stock Market
and made city operators believe that an
agreement Of some kind bad been con
eluded.
The Pacific Coast EdssatlOa.
WAsHINoroS, March i5-Tn the Edu-
cation Convention which is 10 progress
here, City Superintendent r. y Camp.
bell OF oakland, Gal spoke OF the public
education Of the Pacific Coast. He dis
oOursed At some length on the might Of
schools and their advantages, and paid
attention 10 the needs OF large class
which they met In the earlier days OF
the settlement Of the West. He said the
East was as a matter OF aourss far
ahead Of the West in the facilities and
its system Of education, bat be felt 20
day that the West had prOdted by the
example of the East 10 reaching ont fer
the very BEST educational facilities pos.
sible. An interesting and spirited dis
eussi0n followed, led BY n Walterman
OF stockton, Cal, and Prof. J. r. Fogg
Of Eureka, New.
Flsaro- Pneumonia Discussed.
PHILADELPHA. March l5.- Represen
tAtivss from nearly every State In the
Union participated In the deliberations
Of the United States Veterinary Medi
cal Association here today. The sob
jet OF plearo pneumonia vas discussed
81 length and the views Of the assooi
aiion we're embodied in the following
res0l utians.
Rssolpsl. That this association is con
vlaoed that tu0oulation for contagious
pleuto- pneamonia IL inapplicAble and
shonld not be allowed In the United
States.
Rssolpsd, That no animal should be
placed In infected stables until thorough
disinfectiou had taken place aud that
all animals exposed TO OF having the
disease should be destroyed.
wreck on the Massachasetts Coast
HoRTR Eastman (Mass.) March Ia
An unknown tee N AsteA sob poner vent
ashore this morning about 3 o'clock.
two miles south Of the life saving sta
ton at Nausett All attempts 10 reach
her by the crew OF the station have
failed. The Sea Ia making a clean sweep
over the schooner, and the hnil IL almost
under water. Three men can be counted
from the shore dashed 10 the foFetop,
aud one man IL olinaine 10 the bswspris
The life saving crew have fred fifteen
lines az the vessel, out of which only oae
reached her. but the SEA il tso heavy TO
do anything. Ihere IL not much pros
pect OF saving the Grew unleAs the
weather modeEates. The schooner was
loaded and bound south. She lies bead
on over a hAlf-mile from shore. The
wind IL blowing gale from the north
west.
lnoeRdtaries at werk In Nsrth
Carolina.
RALsIoH IN. o., March ia Are
broke out In Johnson's warehouse AZ
Oxford Al l.s0 O'Clock this morning
There vas a high Wind aud the flames
spread rapidly Ia a soasherly direction.
jumping Commercial avenue and barn
tug she houses on both sides OF the
street for some distance. Halt abe hasi
ness portion Of the town vas DESTROYED
and twenty three arms we're barned
DOT. The loss h aboat fi0O 90 and The
Insurance ~ scarcely half that amount
The general belief In the town il thai
the hrs vas she work Of iasruiiarirs
and great excitement prevails. The
white people thtnk they can Law their
hands on those ruspOt sihle for the con
hagratioa aud farthcr troahls "a feared